WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHARK SANCTUARY

THESE ISLANDS ARE IN THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN.  THE COUNTRY IS PART OF THE LARGER GROUP OF MICRONESIA WITH THE POPULATION OF ABOUT 68,000 PEOPLE IN 34 LOW LYING ATOLS AND AND 100 ISLANDS.

EUROPEANS CAME HERE IN 1520'S WITH SPAIN IN 1526.  A BRITISH EXPLORER NAMED JOHN MARSHALL NAMED THE ISLAND.  IN 1874 THE BECAME PART OF GERMANY.  IN 1885 JAPAN  OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS.  BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN  OVER BY THE U.S. SELF GOVERNMENT.    IN 1885 JAPAN OCCUPIED THE ISLANDS.  BY 1919 THE ISLANDS WERE TAKEN ISLANDS WERE TAKEN OVER BY THE U S ,  SELF GOVERNMENT WAS RECOGNIZED IN 1979.

THEY HAVE FEW NATURAL RESOURCES.  THE ISLANDS WEALTH THE ISLANDS WEALTH IS BASED ON SERVICE ECONOMY AS WELL AS FISHING AND AGRICULTURE.   MUCH OF THEIR  ECONOMY COMES FROM THE US.  SOME OF THE FOLKS ARE FROM PHILLIPINES.  THE MAJORITY OF FOLKS ARE OF MARSHALESE DESCENT.  SOME ARE OF MALAAYO-PHILLIPINE/POLYNESIA DESCENT.  MOST FOLKS PRACTICE THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.

THE ISLANDS WERE SETTLED IN 2ND MILLENIUM B.C.  PEOPLE CAME HERE FROM CANOES.  A GERMAN TRADING COMPANY SETTLED ON THE OTHER ISLANDS IN 1885.  FROM 1946 TO 1958 THE  U.S.  TESTED NUCLEAR WEAPONS.  THIS WAS DETERMINED THE MOST CONTAMINATED SITE OF THE NUCLEAR PROVING GROUNDS.  THERE ARE STILL HEALTH EFFECTS.  THEY HAVE A SHARK SANCTIONARY THAT IS THE WORLDS LARGEST.  NO ONE CAN CATCH SHARKS.  THERE MOST ARE COCONUTS, TOMATOES, MELONS, AND BREADFRUITS.  THEY HAVE HAD A BIG TUNA .  THEY HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH COCONUT OIL TO USE AS A DIESEL FUEL.  NO RESULTS YET.  THE ISLAND HAS 68,000 PEOPLE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS.

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